Table 6.

Personal characteristics (employed persons) of the MAED survey compared with national surveys^a

	MAED survey	Statistics Austria National Census 2013	NTS 2013	Austrian Time Use Survey 2008/09
Households	490	2,006,004	10,490	3060
Employed persons	748	4,019,408	17,013	4546
Gender
Male	50.0	53.3	53	50.0
Female	50.0	46.7	47	50.0
Age
15–19	2.3	5.0	0.9	3.5
20–29	6.8	19.5	13.6	17.1
30–39	18.7	22.6	19.1	26.8
40–49	35.7	29.1	31.7	30.1
50–59	31.9	20.0	31.2	19.1
60+	4.6	3.8	3.5	3.4
Employed	88.7	88.8	n.d.	89.1
Self-employed	11.3	11.2	n.d.	10.9
Compulsory education	2.7	17.8	5.9	11.7
Apprenticeship, vocational school	36.0	50.9	48.3	60.2
High school	24.3	15.9	20.2	14.5
College, university	37.0	15.4	25.6	13.6

^aCharacteristics of the Austrian Consumer Expenditure Survey 09/10 were not available